We evaluated dose-volume histogram (DVH) parameters based on deformable image registration (DIR) between brachytherapy (BT) and external beam radiotherapy (EBRT) that included a center-shielded (CS) plan. Eleven cervical cancer patients were treated with BT, and their pelvic and CS EBRT were studied. Planning CT images for EBRT and BT (except for the first BT, used as the reference image) were ...

OBJECTIVES The aims of this study were to find and compare the effect of directional (DIR) processing of two different hearing aids via both subjective and objective methods, to determine the association between the results of the subjective and objective evaluations, and to find out individual predictive factors influencing the DIR benefit. METHODS Twenty-six hearing aid users fitted unilate...

A linear prefilter can be used to reduce the required complexity of a maximum likelihood sequence detector Viterbi algorithm (MLSD-VA) by shortening the overall channel and prefilter impulse response in dynamic communication systems. The combination of channel and prefilter should have the effect of producing a desired impulse response (DIR) at the detector. Falconer and Magee (1973) showed tha...

This study aimed to evaluate the performance of the hybrid deformable image registration (DIR) method in comparison with intensity-based DIR for pelvic cone-beam computed tomography (CBCT) images, using intensity and anatomical information. Ten prostate cancer patients treated with intensity-modulated radiation therapy (IMRT) were studied. Nine or ten CBCT scans were performed for each patient....

Ultrasound-triggered phase transition sensitive nanodroplets with multimodal imaging functionality were prepared via premix Shirasu porous glass (SPG) membrane emulsification method. The nanodroplets with fluorescence dye DiR and SPIO nanoparticles (DiR-SPIO-NDs) had a polymer shell and a liquid perfluoropentane (PFP) core. The as-formed DiR-SPIO-NDs have a uniform size of 385 ± 5.0 nm with PDI...

Deformable image registration (DIR) is fundamental technique for adaptive radiotherapy and image-guided radiotherapy. However, further improvement of DIR is still needed. We evaluated the accuracy of B-spline transformation-based DIR implemented in elastix. This registration package is largely based on the Insight Segmentation and Registration Toolkit (ITK), and several new functions were imple...

We adapted the deformable image registration (DIR) technique to accurately calculate the cumulative intracavitary brachytherapy (ICBT) and external beam radiotherapy (EBRT) rectal dose for treating uterine cervical cancer. A total of 14 patients with primary cervical cancer radically treated with ICRT and EBRT were analysed using the Velocity AI(TM) software. Computed tomography (CT) images wer...

This document describes the DIR net, a distributed environment which is part of the EFTOS fault tolerance framework. The DIR net is a system consisting of two components, called DIR Manager (or, shortly, the manager) and DIR Backup Agent (shortly, the backup). One manager and a set of backups is located in the system to be `guarded', one component per node. At this point the DIR net weaves a we...

In recent year, Deformable Image Registration (DIR) has become commercially available in the field of radiotherapy. DIR is an exciting and interesting technology for multi-modality image fusion, anatomic image segmentation, Four-dimensional (4D) dose accumulation and lung functional (ventilation) imaging. Furthermore, DIR is playing an important role in modern radiotherapy included Image-Guided...

In [1], [2] the authors introduced the concept of Differentiated Reliability (DiR) applied to dedicated path protection (DPP) switching in Wavelength Division Multiplexing (WDM) rings. By means of the DiR concept, a network can be designed to provide multiple degrees of reliability and efficiently satisfy the user-specific requirements, yet minimizing the network total cost. This paper extends ...